Gwendoline Riley

Gwendoline Riley

Gwendoline Riley is an English writer, born in 1979. Born in London, she now lives in Manchester, where she attended Manchester Metropolitan University and became literary editor of "City Life" magazine when she was 20. She cites her influences as Fitzgerald, Salinger, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, William T. Vollmann and Morrissey [http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2064808,00.html] .

She was named one of the five outstanding debut novels of 2002 by "The Guardian" 'Weekend' magazine for "Cold Water", which also won a Betty Trask Award. "Sick Notes" followed in 2004 and "Joshua Spassky" in 2007. For "Cold Water" and "Sick Notes", the drama unfolds in Manchester, occasionally extending to different areas of Lancashire. "Joshua Spassky", however, is set in Asheville, North Carolina - the town where Zelda Fitzgerald died in a fire at the Highland Hospital. "Joshua Spassky" won the 2008 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2007 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

External links

* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2064808,00.html "Guardian" interview (2007)]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2004/mar/interview_gwen_riley.html 3:AM Magazine interview (2004)]
* [http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25361-2644281,00.html Times Literary Supplement review of "Joshua Spassky", by Paul Owen]


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